Somewhere in the backyard of the Digital Life Labs Mountain Outpost, somewhere in that overgrown and hilly jungle, there is a robot lawnmower crying out for help.

I can hear the cry as a beeping alert on my phone. I can see it in the robot’s app. The robot, known as the Dreame Roboticmower A1, is trapped somewhere in the upper left quadrant of our 1000-square-metre jungle, according to the app’s map.